Cut up about half a large cabbage in little pieces and two large white onions the same. Brown in pan with about a stick of butter. It will take a while to cook down and brown. The brownish cabbage is the tastiest part so make sure to do that.

While you're cooking that, boil off a bag of egg noodles.

When everything is done, mix together with lots of crushed black pepper and salt to taste.

Mondays. Like it's something new? Like there will never be another weekend ever? Going to be a long life if you have to have a bad attitude one day a week. One day a week is 14 percent of the time. Why be grumpy 14 percent of your life?

Here's the conversation with a man I briefly dated. No shit, probably the best looking guy I ever slept with. I broke up with him after a couple months. Couldn't take it anymore. So here's the convo after we are half naked:

John: "How about you give me Ned?"

Me: "What is Ned?"

John: "You know, (said softly) head"

Me: "Oh..... ok".

So I'm down on him, thinking to myself, what the fuck is wrong with this guy. He is hot, but I cannot believe he just said that. Is he a stupid moron? Does he think that is remotely sexual or cool? Where did he learn that stupid phrase? PS, I was even successful at getting him off how I don't know....

I was having a hard time relating to him anyway, I'm no brain surgeon but he was dumb as a stump. He was hot as hell, but I just couldn't listen to him so I ended the relationship, and this conversation was the the beginning of the end.

It's pretty wasteful if you think about it. It's for the living left behind, not the one it's supposed to REALLY be for. I'm going to get cremated and thrown somewhere nice outside. Back to the earth from which I came.

You know what it is about spiders? It's the way they move, they put you on the defense immediately and you go into freak out mode. I'm convinced they are either going to run right at me and up my pants leg and/or bite me or go underneath a piece of furniture and have 6,000,000,000,000 babies.

However I do appreciate they are good for the environment. A man I know through my workplace bought me a Bugzooka. I swear this thing is genius. You get to be far enough away to use the Bugzooka and capture the spider, then you can humanely let them go outside. I got one for my mom too. There's not too many products I'd recommend but that thing is great.

I grew up in suburbia NJ. Jobs galore. Until I moved out to PA, to a coal patch town, did I understand the true necessity of social programs.

These coal mining families lived and worked these regions their whole life. Generations living in the same family homestead. After the coal mining era was over, factories moved in, sewing, manufacturing and the like. These people were used to blue collar, phyiscal labor for the most part and these jobs were just fine.

This all worked out just fine, until consumers demanded cheaper prices, forcing these jobs overseas. So now you have these people, attached to this region, with no jobs now and none on the horizon.

Ignorance begets ignorance in most cases. You think these people were telling their kids to study hard to get into college? No. And could they afford to send them anyway? NO. So now there are no jobs, no hope. What moves in next? Addiction, drugs, alcoholism and children having children. Because having children puts you in the system where you are cared for. If you have no job prospects, no car, what are you going to do?

So I move into this place, and I have a mom and pop style restaurant. Every single kid that worked for me had unemployed parents, drug or alcohol addicted parents who were on the system in one way or another. What were these people going to do to make their lives better? What? You tell me. Poof, get an awesome white collar job in Philadelphia 2.5 hours away? No. They scrape and make ends meet, take whatever work they can get, and train a whole new generation of kids the wrong way to do things.

Do we just hang out people that have lived in these areas out to dry and forget about them? Do their kids deserve to grow up in a home without food, or no home at all? These people need jobs. Job training. Their kids in high schools need to be trained in relevant careers where they can support a family. Birth control needs to be pushed so these girls have a chance.

It's real easy to sit in a suburb somewhere and curse out "lazy bums" and I'll give you that some of them are. But others are victims of circumstance with no way in their lifetime of remedying their situation without outside intervention.

In our screaming matches during our breakup after our 9 year relationship, he admitted cumming inside me on occasion to try and get me pregnant when he said he pulled out. He said since I didn't get pregnant, something must be wrong with me not being able to conceive and I should get that checked out. PS I know that method is not foolproof, but it's the intentional deception.
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I don't think people hate art so much as they see an abstract painting and think, "what the fuck is that?" or "it looks like a kid drew that." I know I've thought that secretly at times.

I do think some of it is "left brain" "right brain". I for one, have a hard time understanding it but my co-worker sees a painting and can talk off about it for days and really make me see something I didn't even realize could be there.

I think fully shaved looks weird. Part of a man's attractiveness is their um, well their being so opposite of a woman. But a massive bush of crotch hair is caveman like. I think a close trim, 1/4 inch to 3/4 inch is sexy without going too much in any direction. Plus the shorter the hair the less chance of trapped odor or sweat.

I've been nicotine free for a few months now. It is the first time in 26 years.

I smoked for 20 years, and spent the last 6 years addicted to nicotine gum. I decided early this year that I was done. I am now chewing the shit out of regular gum.

I "quit" several times while I was smoking, only to have a crisis and start back all over again. The thing that is so hard for a smoker to realize is that you can't have one, you can't have any. You can't just smoke when you drink, you can't smoke on weekends. It's all or nothing and that's that.

I tried the patch, and then the gum, and the gum stuck, literally. I started buying my gum on ebay, back before everyone caught on to that. Then I found an outfit out of NZ, and I was buying generic gum from them by the case. Not cheap, but about 1/3 the price of the stores. It got to the point where it was not going away, I was chewing all the time, at the same times I was smoking. It was not helping. And I eventually got worried about the state of my teeth. I read on the internet that some people had developed problems with their teeth from chewing too much nicotine gum. So this year in January I decided, "when I'm done with this case of nicotine gum, that's that." When I got to the last box, I weaned myself down and bought lots of regular chewing gum.

So that's where I'm at now. I constantly have a piece of sugarless gum in my mouth. It's just habit. I have lots: I like Orbit, Trident, Extra, you name it. Eventually this will get old too, I can tell already.

But, I"m 41 years old, and the last four months has been the longest I've been without nicotine since I was 15 years old. Pretty cool, I think.

It reminds me of a game my husband and I play. We go for an hour or so long walk every evening. When we walk around the neighborhood we try to see who can spot the most rabbits. It makes the time pass faster and we try to break our score. High score this year is 15 so far but last year we got 21.